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Any Animal Whatever? Harmful Battery and Its Elements as Building Blocks of Moral Cognition.

This article argues that the key elements of the prima facie case of harmful battery may form critical building blocks of moral cognition in both humans and nonhuman animals. By contrast, at least some of the rules and representations presupposed by familiar justifications to battery appear to be un...

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Published in:Ethics Vol. 124; no. 4; pp. 750 - 787
Main Author: Mikhail, John
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press Jul2014
Subjects:
Moral psychology
Cognition
Psychology
Justification (Ethics)
Thought experiments
Methodology
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